# Ever been shocked at what some people believe? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 18, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-shocked-at-what-some-people-believe/622369 "2012-05-18T22:14:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 68
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-shocked-at-what-some-people-believe/622369/68 "2012-05-21T21:54:31Z")
> [@Sodalite](#): > > Wow. What surprises me about that one is they believed it into adulthood. > > I had a classmate in high school (both of us were in Honors level classes) who believed the same thing. We grew up in the same rural area so it wasn’t a matter of being unfamiliar with animals. > > Me: Meat is just the muscle if an animal (or something like that. I don’t remember how it came up). > > Her: Eww! No it’s not! > > Me: Yes it is. > > Her: Mommy! (yes, she really still called her that) Sodalite says meat is animal muscle! > > Her Mom: Of course it is. > > Her: EEEEEEEEEWWWW!!! > > Me: What did you think it was, then? > > Her: I dunno. I thought there was skin and muscle and somewhere down in there was meat. > > . . . Good gosh, I had almost the exact argument with my high school friend, word for word, but minus any mom participation. I never convinced her. We had another argument, too, about those little bee-like flies you sometimes see buzzing around flowers. She said her dad said they were “baby bees”. I said that bees were fully-grown when they left the hive, having passed their infanthood in the form of larvae and pupae. She instantly got pissed that I would doubt anything that her dad said. FTR, her dad was an ignorant, bullshitting alcoholic. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-shocked-at-what-some-people-believe/622369)._